Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log.

A certain excessiveness seems a necessary element in all greatness.

I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least part of the work.

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

Success is like the most beautiful woman:pursued by many, loved by all, feared by few, courted by the patient and hardworking, and won over by good judgment.

You can't have all the answers now or you could never grow from making a choice. If you want to grow, you must face adversity and make decisions without having all the answers.

The highest measure of democracy is neither the 'extent of freedom' nor the 'extent of equality', but rather the highest measure of participation.

Human dignity is more precious than prestige.

I'm definitely different and I know that.

If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.

In a word, most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness.

Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.

how magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?

The way that I teach now is just by listening. I listen a lot.